‘Two free Southwest Airlines tickets’ Facebook Scam

The 'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook scam is an exceptionally intricate scam that uses social engineering tactics to proliferate and attempts to convince you that you've won one of several fake prizes. If you bother to jump through all the hoops that the 'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook scam presents, you'll be directed to a survey that drives revenue to criminals and may be used to collect private information for illegal purposes. Because 'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook scam looks fairly realistic and believable, you should keep an eye on the visual indicators of a 'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook scam's lure and stay away from comments and links for 'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook scam. SpywareRemove.com malware research team also recommends that you educate any contacts who are spreading 'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook scam links without being aware of what they're doing, to sever the social scamming that 'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook scam uses for 'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook scam's distribution.

Why You Don't Want to Take a Trip with the 'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook Scam

'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook scam uses the rather ingenious strategy of encouraging 'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook scam's victims to spread links to 'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook scam, by requiring that you repost the link voluntarily, before you're eligible to win the supposed 'two free tickets.' Although 'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook scam even includes a few guidelines on how you're supposed to post these links as a simple misdirection tactic, 'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook scams have no way to monitor your comments and don't try to keep track of whether or not you followed their rules.

'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook scam links will, typically, contain text like one of the two following messages:

"sweet! i just got 2 free flight vouchers from Southwest Air to fly to any destination i can think of lmao! i didnt believe it would work but it was, got it here..[website URL] link try for yourself i just figured i would share with everyone"

TWO FREE Southwest Airline Tickets
[LINK]
SW is currently giving away 2 tickets to any destination within the United States, only to a few select people.

Afterwards, you'll be told that you're a winner (even if you didn't follow the rules of this fake contest) and be taken to a webpage that offers you several prizes. You may also be prompted to install SW Gifts, a spyware toolbar that accesses your Facebook account and monitors personal information to spread the scam even more than 'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook scam is already spread.

Don't Hold Out Your Hands for the 'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook Scam's Rotten Prize

In addition to the spyware toolbar that 'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook scams try to install, 'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook scams will also place you in other dangers during the fake prize-confirmation process. Common threats that SpywareRemove.com malware experts have analyzed include:

• Being asked to sign up for fake, malicious or simply non-beneficial mailing lists that send spam e-mail messages to your e-mail account. Your account information may also be shared to unauthorized third-parties.
• Being the target of fake software promotions that pretend to offer excellent deals when their products are faulty or their price offers are misleading.
• Being put on mailing lists for other text-messaging forms of spam, such as mobile phone texts and messages via instant-messaging clients.

In some cases, you may be able to opt out of these lists after you've been entered into them, although, in the worst cases, the only escape from 'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook scam's spam is to switch your e-mail account. SpywareRemove.com malware experts also strongly encourage you to change your Facebook login information to prevent your Facebook account from being hijacked by 'Two free Southwest Airlines tickets' Facebook scam.